DENVER -- With every brick, with every air ball, with every abysmal shooting performance that piled up to open his 20th NBA season, Kobe Bryant tried to remind himself that it was all part of the process, that in time his rhythm would return and his legs would do the same. Hopefully.
"The hardest thing [was] to stay with it, seriously," the Los Angeles Lakers star said Tuesday. "There's been games where I was just kind of like, ‘What the hell?'
"Because I knew how hard I worked. I knew how many shots I took.